Quote from: Biodom on Today at 06:20:59 PM

Quote from: Torque on Today at 05:47:03 PM

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Quote from: Paashaas on Today at 05:01:00 PM

Coronavirus Cases: 27,202,829. Deaths: 885,764. Recovered: 19,288,016.

So by the time i guess it's safe to say that covid's lethality is higher than the flu's.

According to the CDC's own website data for the U.S., 94% of Covid-19 deaths had comorbities with some other cause of death (e.g., flu, pneumonia, heart disease, diabetes, organ failure, heart attack, blunt force trama, cancer, etc.).

Only 6% of related Covid-19 deaths were tagged as "Covid only" as the cause (11,569 people in the U.S.).

Also, 99% of Covid-related deaths were over the age of 65. The majority were 70+.

Re highlighted..
The actual number is 79.2% (high, but nowhere close to 99%)
Source: Death by age groups
https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#demographics

Thanks. I couldn't be arsed to look it up, but that data is more consistent to the ones I had. Nice you did check out the specific source Torque was referring to.

I really don't understand this polarization between "we are all gonna die from covid" vs "it is completely irrelevant and people die because they are old or ill". Manipulating the stats or simply spreading missinformation/fake data doesn't help either.

There are many people whose position about this particular subject is in a much more healthy and reasonable middle point.